Dr. Turner forms the hypothesis that ingesting caffeine prior to an exam will improve exam performance. In a study, she gives half of the participants coffee and the other half water. She then gives the participants an exam. In this experiment, what is the experimental group?
a. The group that drinks water
b. The performance on the exam
c. The group that has coffee
d. There is no experimental group as this is a case study
b
Psychology
You might also like to view...
Dino says, "I plan to get all the sexual experience I can before I get married; but I want my fiancé to be a virgin." Dino is expressing:
A) male machismo. B) female stereotyping. C) sexist gender beliefs. D) the sexual double standard.
Psychology
A risk of interview and questionnaire methods is that children
A) will not understand the concept of informed consent. B) cannot remember their recent experiences. C) frequently change their answers. D) will sometimes give the answers they think the interviewer wants to hear.
Psychology